Steric effects stabilization

Fig. 7.18 Stabilization of antimuscarinic compounds to esterase activity by steric effects. Stability was achieved when groupings corresponding to those illustrated were incorporated.

The greater stability of an equatorial methyl group compared with an axial one IS another example of a steric effect (Section 3 2) An axial substituent is said to be crowded because of 1,3 diaxial repulsions between itself and the other two axial sub stituents located on the same side of the ring... 

The greater stability of more highly substituted double bonds is an exam pie of an electronic effect The decreased stability that results from van der Waals strain between cis substituents is an example of a steric effect... 

Reactions such as catalytic hydrogenation that take place at the less hindered side of a reactant are common m organic chemistry and are examples of steric effects on reactivity Previously we saw steric effects on structure and stability m the case of CIS and trans stereoisomers and m the preference for equatorial substituents on cyclo hexane rings... 

Rate IS governed by stability of car bocation that is formed in loniza tion step Tertiary alkyl halides can react only by the SnI mechanism they never react by the Sn2 mecha nism (Section 8 9) Rate IS governed by steric effects (crowding in transition state) Methyl and primary alkyl halides can react only by the Sn2 mecha nism they never react by the SnI mechanism (Section 8 6)... 

For most vinyl polymers, head-to-tail addition is the dominant mode of addition. Variations from this generalization become more common for polymerizations which are carried out at higher temperatures. Head-to-head addition is also somewhat more abundant in the case of halogenated monomers such as vinyl chloride. The preponderance of head-to-tail additions is understood to arise from a combination of resonance and steric effects. In many cases the ionic or free-radical reaction center occurs at the substituted carbon due to the possibility of resonance stabilization or electron delocalization through the substituent group. Head-to-tail attachment is also sterically favored, since the substituent groups on successive repeat units are separated by a methylene... 

The stability toward additional disproportionation is dependent on the increase in B—N bond strength as well as steric effects resulting from the R group. 

Ionization reaction rates are subject to both electronic and steric effects. The most important electronic effects are stabilization of the carbocation by electron-releasing... 

Nitroalkanes show a related relationship between kinetic acidity and thermodynamic acidity. Additional alkyl substituents on nitromethane retard the rate of proton removal although the equilibrium is more favorable for the more highly substituted derivatives. The alkyl groups have a strong stabilizing effect on the nitronate ion, but unfavorable steric effects are dominant at the transition state for proton removal. As a result, kinetic and thermodynamic acidity show opposite responses to alkyl substitution. 

Hydrolysis of an enamine yields a carbonyl compound and a secondary amine. Only a few rate constants are mentioned in the literature. The rate of hydrolysis of l-(jS-styryl)piperidine and l-(l-hexenyl)piperidine have been determined in 95% ethanol at 20°C 13). The values for the first-order rate constants are 4 x 10 sec and approximately 10 sec , respectively. Apart from steric effects the difference in rate may be interpreted in terms of resonance stabilization by the phenyl group on the vinyl amine structure, thus lowering the nucleophilic reactivity of the /3-carbon atom of that enamine. 

The DTBS group is probably the most useful of the bifunctional silyl ethers. Dimeihylsilyl and diisopropylsilyl derivatives of diols are very susceptible to hydrolysis even in water and therefore are of limited use, unless other structurally imposed steric effects provide additional stabilization. 

The low yields of 6,6 -disubstituted-2,2 -bipyridincs recorded in Table I are probably the result of steric retardation of the adsorption of 2-substituted pyridines. This view is supported by the observation that 2-methylpyridine is a much weaker poison for catalytic hydrogenations than pyridine. On the other hand, the quinolines so far examined (Table II) are more reactive but with these compounds the steric effect of the fused benzene ring could be partly compensated by the additional stabilization of the adsorbed species, since the loss of resonance energy accompanying the localization of one 71-electron would be smaller in a quinoline than in a pyridine derivative. 

Upon formulating these relationships, phenols with branched alkyl substituents were not included in the data of a-cyclodextrin systems, though they were included in (3-cyclodextrin systems. In all the above equations, the n term was statistically significant at the 99.5 % level of confidence, indicating that the hydrophobic interaction plays a decisive role in the complexation of cyclodextrin with phenols. The Ibrnch term was statistically significant at the 99.5% level of confidence for (3-cyclo-dextrin complexes with m- and p-substituted phenols. The stability of the complexes increases with an increasing number of branches in substituents. This was ascribed to the attractive van der Waals interaction due to the close fitness of the branched substituents to the (3-cyclodextrin cavity. The steric effect of substituents was also observed for a-cyclodextrin complexes with p-substituted phenols (Eq. 22). In this case, the B parameter was used in place of Ibmch, since no phenol with a branched... 

Cobalt trifluoride fluorination corresponds to the electron-transfer mechanism via a radical cation. RF groups attached to the ring enhance the stability of intermediate dienes and monoenes. Perfluoroalkyl pyridines, pyrazines, and pyrimidines were successfully fluorinated but pyridazines eliminated nitrogen. The lack of certain dienes was attributed to the difference in stability of FC=C and RFC=C and steric effects [81JCS(P1)2059]. 

Since equatorial attack is roughly antiperiplanar to two C-C bonds of the cyclic ketone, an extended hypothesis of antiperiplanar attack was proposed39. Since the incipient bond is intrinsically electron deficient, the attack of a nucleophile occurs anti to the best electron-donor bond, with the electron-donor order C—S > C —H > C —C > C—N > C—O. The transition state-stabilizing donor- acceptor interactions are assumed to be more important for the stereochemical outcome of nucleophilic addition reactions than the torsional and steric effects suggested by Felkin. 

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